--- schema_version: "1" id: 8ce6d382dc976ceca3a4c20d4f207e6e169f57c9a516dba5c9721586a5fad939 title: New and Changed Connect REST APIs in Agentforce Public Sector collection: admin version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/admin/current/en-us/release-notes/264-0-0/rn_aps_new_changed_connect_api.md canonical_url: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=release-notes.rn_aps_new_changed_connect_api.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 source_site: help.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: e010f67f1a3bff60818e70a8859cd6c696e6f308875d49e8c3cfa70373c57641 description: Do more with the new and changed Agentforce Public Sector APIs. products: - Cross Cloud release: "264" --- # New and Changed Connect REST APIs in Agentforce Public Sector Do more with the new and changed Agentforce Public Sector APIs. ## Benefit Management Manage application data Make a POST request to the new `/connect/integrated-application/application-data` resource. Create, update, or read benefit application data records using a Context Definition–driven persistence strategy. New request body: Integrated Application Data Input New response body: Integrated Application Data Output Evaluate eligible benefits Make a POST request to the new `/connect/integrated-application/eligible-benefits` resource. Return the available benefits for an applicant along with the eligibility evaluation outcome for each. New request body: Integrated Application Benefits Input New response body: Integrated Application Benefits Output Calculate benefit amounts Make a POST request to the new `/connect/integrated-application/benefit-amount-calculations` resource. Returns the benefit amounts computed by the expression set for the selected benefits. New request body: Integrated Application Benefit Amounts Input New response body: Integrated Application Benefit Amounts Output ## External Storage of Files with Amazon S3 Get external storage search status Make a GET request to the new `/connect/contenthub-externalsearch/status` resource. Call this resource before the Search External Storage API to determine whether to expose search to users. No request body required. New response body: External Storage Search Status Output Search content in external storage Make a POST request to the new `/connect/contenthub-externalsearch/search` resource. This resource searches content stored in an external storage provider, such as Amazon Bedrock or Kendra, through the Lambda middleware, and returns matching documents ranked by relevance. Each result includes an S3 URI that maps to a Salesforce ContentVersion record so you can link matches back to Salesforce content. Page through large result sets using maxResults and a search handle. New request body: External Storage Search Input New response body: External Storage Search Output ## Outbound Payments Create Claims in bulk Make a POST request to the new `/connect/outbound-payments/claims` resource. Create multiple claims, along with their claim items and documents, in one request. New request body: Claim Collection Input New response body: Claim Collection Output Submit Claims Make a POST request to the new `/connect/outbound-payments/claims/action/submit-claims` resource to submit claims. Generate payment requests and payment request lines for a claim by using data extracted from its supporting documents, and advance the claim’s status. New request body: Submit Claims Requests Input New response body: Submit Claims Requests Ouput ## Unstructured Document Processing Extract data from an uploaded file Make a POST request to the new `/connect/intelligent-application-processing/extract` resource. This resource uses Unstructured Document Processing, through the specified IDP configuration, to extract data from a file and create a Document Checklist Item (DCI) record. It returns the extraction status, the extracted data in JSON (when extraction succeeds), and the ID of the created DCI record (when applicable). New request body: Intelligent Application Processing Extract Input New response body: Intelligent Application Processing Extract Output